Frustration

Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Following your heart; Why don't I know what's in my heart?; Asking others what you should do; Lose interest in yourself; Risk the sure footing of the dock; The understanding that dissolves fear; There is no "you" that is going to achieve something holy; What can I do about the sickness that I see in the world?; Wanting to change the behavior of others...

Topics Covered: Sensations and mechanical associations; Torment of inner dialog; Emotional pain and depression; Awareness vs. positive affirmations; Observer is the observed; Role as a bridge; Controlling nature; Resistance and fear; Concept of relaxation; Trying and failing; Worry about what other people think about you; Putting the work into practice; True forgiveness.

Learning what it means to take a deliberate step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2020 - It isn't the world around us we must change in order to bring an end to finding ourselves feeling powerless... again. Before any such change is possible, what needs to be transformed is our unconscious relationship with a lower world within us: our unseen complicity with a level of consciousness that only...

Classroom Talk: 6/17/2020 - When we seek this world, we may win some of its powers and possessions that are fashioned in time, but when we seek the Celestial, we find ourselves – and that we have something within us which made the stars.

Classroom Talk: 1/29/2020 - If you want a “misery-backed” guarantee that whatever troubles you about someone else will get worse... Just be sure and start complaining to him or her about it!

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2019 Any sense of discouragement that would drag us down into its dark world -- where it feeds on feelings of hopelessness that it lives to create -- appears only when and as it does for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for anyone who will consciously walk into...

Topics covered: To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn; Christ never hated those who resisted or resented his work; The illusion of bondage; Being a pawn of a punishing nature; Doing what you are given to do; Self-Shock Syndrome; Our language has been perfected by the consciousness that perpetuates the victim mentality; Being poor in spirit; It's hard not to want consolation...

Classroom Talk: 5/22/2019 The sure way to guarantee that your suffering goes on unabated is to keep talking to yourself about it!

Topics Covered: Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility; Nothing can happen in your spiritual work until you have your own attention; Our minds are always thinking things through; Conditions don't produce pain, they reveal the pained nature; Human beings are in a ceaseless spell; Humility is release from yourself; Awareness of your existence; There is no moment in which the observer i...